Jasmine Crockett will play the race card any chance that she gets.
The Karmelo Anthony verdict gave her the biggest hand she's ever been dealt.
And a Texas colleague went on Fox News and tore her to shreds.
Jasmine Crockett Defends Karmelo Anthony on Podcast Hours After Murder Verdict
A Collin County jury convicted Karmelo Anthony of murder after three hours of deliberation – finding he "knowingly" stabbed 17-year-old Austin Metcalf through the heart at a Frisco high school track meet in April 2025.
The jury rejected Anthony's self-defense claim and sentenced him to 35 years in prison, also rejecting the "sudden passion" argument that would have capped his sentence at 20 years.
Austin Metcalf's father delivered a victim impact statement that said his son's death destroyed the man he used to be – then slammed his fist on the table.
His mother told the court: "For journalists and activists, this is a story. For our family, this is our reality."
Rep. Jasmine Crockett hit her Clock It With Crockett podcast within hours of the sentencing.
On the podcast, Crockett held her fingers close together and told her audience the five-inch blade that pierced Austin Metcalf's heart was too small to be a deadly weapon.
"Well, I would argue the size of it alone, you wouldn't even think it's a deadly weapon," she said.
Metcalf was listed at 200 pounds, not the 300-pound attacker Crockett invented to justify the stabbing.
She also told her audience she couldn't be convinced the jury was impartial – despite Fox News Digital confirming that three of the twelve jurors were racial minorities and six of the eighteen total jurors, including alternates, were minorities.
The next day she was on camera with TMZ calling the verdict "evidence of a broken system."
"Collin County is right north of Dallas County," she said, "and I can tell you that I have had cases that I felt like played out differently because of the counties that they were in – and unfortunately that was not the county for a black boy."
Brandon Gill Calls Crockett a Race-Baiting Thug on Fox News
Rep. Brandon Gill took to America Reports on Fox News and took off the gloves.
"Imagine if that was your son," Gill said. "He was at a track meet and was stabbed in cold blood – stabbed to death – and instead of getting sympathy from many people in your community, you have a bunch of hooligans and thugs and race-baiters calling you up and telling you that you should be next."
Gill said death threats had been directed at the Metcalf family following the verdict – the kind of result he ties directly to Crockett's rhetoric.
"You've got people in power – Jasmine Crockett, for instance – who is stating quite plainly that the American people ought to have sympathy for Karmelo Anthony because he's black, not for any other reason, but because he's black. That's the kind of stuff that leads to this racial divisiveness."
On X, Gill was more direct still. "Hatred of white men," he wrote, "is the glue that holds the Democrat Party together."
Crockett isn't alone. Cardi B publicly defended Anthony on social media.
Activists outside the Collin County courthouse called Austin Metcalf and his twin brother "domestic, racist terrorists."
Austin Metcalf's father had warned the courtroom in his victim impact statement: "This was never about race or politics – but what you did was choose to make it about both."
This is what racial arson looks like with a congressional title in front of it.
Crockett lost her Senate primary to James Talarico and is done in Congress at the end of this term – but the fire she lit is still burning.
The Metcalf family is receiving death threats. Anthony filed his appeal and requested a court-appointed attorney the day after sentencing.
And somewhere in Washington, Jasmine Crockett is still podcasting – still telling her audience that twelve jurors who heard nine days of evidence got it wrong, because she watched a two-minute clip and knows better.
Jeff Metcalf stood in that courtroom, slammed his fist on a table, and said grief isn't sadness – it's rage. He was talking about his son. He could have been talking about every parent in America watching Jasmine Crockett use Austin's murder as content.
Sources:
- Staff, "GOP Rep. Gill: Jasmine Crockett 'Is a Race-Baiting Thug,'" Breitbart, June 12, 2026.
- Brooke Singman and Louis Casiano, "Jasmine Crockett Spreads False Claims About Karmelo Anthony Jury Verdict," Fox News, June 11, 2026.
- Dominick Mastrangelo, "Karmelo Anthony Sentenced to 35 Years in Fatal Stabbing of Austin Metcalf at Frisco Track Meet," Fox News, June 9, 2026.
- Sister Toldjah, "Indefensible: Jasmine Crockett Goes Off the Rails in Jaw-Dropping Defense of Karmelo Anthony," RedState, June 10, 2026.
- Jeff Poor, "Brandon Gill Condemns 'Despicable' Race-Baiters After Metcalf Family Faces Death Threats," Fox News Video, June 13, 2026.